Already by 1914 the building of the Sacre-Coeur was completed however, it was only inaugurated after the First World War in the year 1919. The seat of the Sacre-Coeur Basilica can be found on the 130m high hill of Montmartre. It serves as a famous monument of the Roman-Byzantine period.

Despite the Pantheon being France’s largest Hall of Fame, two great personalities are not buried here. Napoleon and Charles de Gaulle were even bigger personalities and could hence only be buried at greater places of nobility.

The Hôtel de Ville is the Paris City Hall. Since 1977 it has again been occupied by a mayor – as for a long time Paris had no mayor! The very large administrative centre regularly hosts large receptions and events.

The ‘city of technology and science’ offers a one in a kind experience. The entire technical culture of France meets here in an exhibition centre and it is not only children and school excursions that have the opportunity to try out, to touch and to admire technology.

An evening in Paris is more like an adventure than an outing. Particularly around Trocardo and the Champs-Elysées there are many bars, clubs and night-clubs which are unfortunately often overcrowded and overprices.

Originally the ‘hôtel national des invalides’ should have accommodated the war-injured and as a church was also meant to be built, the ‘Eglise Saint-Louis des Invalides’ was built without further a-do.

Many famous people have found their final resting place in the world’s most famous cemetery – the Père-Lachaise. This includes prominent personalities like Yves Montand, Oscar Wilde, Edith Piaf, Maria Callas, Frederic Chopin, Jean Moulin, Marcel Proust and Jim Morrisson.

After the middle ages Paris grew steadily and as a result space for corpses was running out hence bodies were exhumed a short time after burial. Although this created more space the stench this created was unbearable. Hence the corpses were from 1795 brought into the Catacombs.

A city beneath the city has almost emerged underground, as one part of the sewage system – it being hygienic and clean incidentally, has been used to display a small exhibition for visitors about the history of the sewers.